Marshall Frady, civil rights reporter, author, and broadcast
journalist, was born in Augusta, Georgia on January 11, 1940. Frady
began his writing career in 1966 as a journalist, working in the Atlanta
and Los Angeles bureaus of

Newsweek. He later wrote for
The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, and
Life magazines. In 1969 Frady published
Wallace, a biography of the Alabama governor and
presidential candidate. In the late 1970s, Frady moved to television
journalism, and was chief writer and host of Closeup from
1979-1986. Frady wrote several more biographies, including Billy
Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness (1979),
Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (1996),
and Martin Luther King, Jr. (2002). He was working on a
biography of Fidel Castro when he died on March 9, 2004 in Greenville,
South Carolina.
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of the papers of Marshall Frady from 1950-2004,
including correspondence, writings, research files, audiovisual
materials, and printed material. Writings include notes and drafts of
nearly all of his published works, in addition to drafts of several
unpublished articles, books and screenplays.